Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie slammed by TV personality

British TV personality Vanessa Feltz has slammed Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie as "superfluous to national requirements".

The royals' father Prince Andrew wants them to take on full-time royal duties and be given new accommodation at Kensington Palace, something his brother Prince Charles reportedly disagrees with, and British TV personality Vanessa Feltz does not believe the pair should become full-time royals.

She wrote in the Daily Express newspaper: "I do not think these two women (whose only crimes have been against fashion) should be rewarded with a prominent position on the royal Firm, be given even more palatial accommodation at Kensington Palace and granted substantial incomes for ribbon cutting and tree-planting at tax-payers' expense.

Vanessa also believes that there are enough royals representing the Queen on engagements right now and has encouraged Beatrice and Eugenie to focus instead on finding "love and happiness".

She added: "Fling Prince George and Princess Charlotte into the mix and we have an elegant sufficiency of royals. With Prince Andrew whizzing about the globe, the Duke and Duchess of Wessex disporting themselves on and off bicycles in a dignified fashion and Princess Anne occasionally bobbing into view en route to an engagement of extreme worthiness, we are not deprived of a royal flavour should we desire one.